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JohannaNYC
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 Message 1 of 168
12 December 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged 
Welcome to the log for the Middle-Eastern team. This team is for those learning Arabic,
Persian, Hebrew and other languages of Middle Eastern origin. French learners and
speakers are also welcomed since French is such an important language in Middle-Eastern
and North African countries.

TEAM ROSTER

Arabic Godmother: Woodsei

Hebrew Godfather: laban

Persian Godfather Jappy58

JohannaNYC
: Egyptian and written Arabic

Deadscreen
: Arabic and French

Luso
: Classical Arabic

Strikingstar
: Written Arabic

Takato
: Egyptian and written Arabic

Zecchino1991
: Hebrew

Ignis Fatuus: Written Arabic

Élan
: Persian, Arabic and Somali

Druckfehler:
Persian

TheGreaterFool
: Hebrew

Ellasevia
: Persian

Shemtov
: Persian and Arabic

girlonthewing
: Classical and Levantine Arabic

Haksaeng
: Levantine Arabic

Hendrek
: Persian

Zireael
: Yemeni Arabic

Edited by JohannaNYC on 23 January 2013 at 2:38am

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JohannaNYC
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12 December 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged 
On-Line Language Learning Resources
Children's Book Library
The Children's Book Library has digitalised 476 books in Persian, 30 books in
Arabic and 19 books in Hebrew and access is free. I will definitely make
use of them to practice reading. Some of the books are also available in other
languages, so it's possible to use them as parallel texts.

OllyBolly Children Book Videos
This is a Korean site (in English) which has videos of narrated stories for children in
several languages. All the videos are available with subtitles, as well as in English
and Korean translation. They have 4 videos in Persian, 2 in Lebanese Arabic and
6 in Palestinian Arabic.

DLI: G.L.O.S.S. online lessons
I'm a great fan of these free lessons, which teach new vocabulary, grammatical
structure and cultural competency. They have encouraged me to take the leap and study
with native materials in Korean. They are available for every level and use a wide
variety of native materials with audio, vocabulary lists, grammatical explanations and
exercises with an answer key. There are 315 lessons for Persian, 482 lessons for
Arabic, 142 lessons for Hebrew and 8 lessons for Somali.

DLI News Training
Interesting for Intermediate and Advanced students, similar to G.L.O.S.S. (possible
overlaps).

Book 2 Audio vocabulary and
sentences in Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and lots of other languages.

Arabic

Free Arabic E-books

Egyptian Arabic Dialect Course
The Arabic Student
Basic Egyptian Videos
Egyptian Arabic on YouTube
ArabicPod101: Free 7-day trial and a
few free lessons.
FSI Arabic:
They have free courses in MSA, Saudi and Levantine with audio. Also comparative
textbooks between Eastern/Western and Levantine/Egyptian.
Benny's steps to become fluent in
Arabic in 3 Months




Hebrew
The Little Prince


Persian
Persian Grammar
Persian Online

"A Day in Rostamābād of Shemirān" by Mohammad-Ali Jamālzāde

This website has a Persian story with annotations for every word, English translation,
audio, etc. Could be very useful for reading practice.

DLI Dari Course

This Dari course from the Defense Language Institute looks very good. It's very new
(not like most of their resources which can be found on the net) and includes student
textbook, student workbook, audio and the teacher book.

Persian Verb ConjugatorMight be useful,
very thorough. Also has a site with grammatical explanations.

Virtual Persian
These are basically just conversations with script and audio (no
translation or vocabulary).

Farsi.Tardid.Net Dialogues,

Farsi.Tardid.Net Lessons
Several Dialogues with Video and Worksheets/Handouts for download. I haven't tried this
yet.

Radio CP Weekly Podcasts in Farsi.

The Little Prince (text and audio)






Edited by JohannaNYC on 14 January 2013 at 5:41pm

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 Message 3 of 168
12 December 2012 at 10:01pm | IP Logged 
Hey thanks for starting the thread, Johanna! I started the Romance Team thread so I've been pretty focused on that so far. I'd like to clarify what I will be doing as part of this team:

My main focus is French this year. That being said, I would like to learn more about Arabic, and the connections it has to both French and Spanish. As it stands right know, I know literally NOTHING about Arabic, other than it uses a non-Roman alphabet (Is roman the correct term?). I will be looking for an introductory textbook for myself in the next two weeks, but I am really hoping to do a lot of talking with you guys and reading your logs to really help myself get to know the Arabic language. I am predicting that I will probably do more learning ABOUT Arabic this year than learning too much actual language. But I'm not being final about that! I'm open to learning some conversational Arabic if, perhaps, someone wants to practice basic conversation or our godmother would like to talk with me a little bit?

Anyway, that's my two cents. Thanks again for making the thread, and I'm looking forward to 2013!

Edited by deadscreen on 12 December 2012 at 10:08pm

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JohannaNYC
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12 December 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged 
Deadscreen that's great, we're here to learn. The only requirements are to learn some
Arabic even if it's not your main focus, keep your log updated and read your teammate's
blogs at least once in a while. It would be nice to have some Arabic conversations with
each other and our godmother, but we'll see about that later.

Any ideas for team name?
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Woodsei
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 Message 5 of 168
12 December 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged 
Hi all!

Popping in to say hey, and I'm here to offer any help I can for the team, and I wish
you
all the best of luck! Let me know if you have any suggestions, I'm kind of new to the
whole Godmother thing :D But of course, I'll do my absolute best!

EDIT: @deadscreen: Of course I'm ready to discuss anything over with you in regards to
Arabic. I speak the Egyptian dialect, but I also have some knowledge of Levantine, or I
can try and point you towards a good direction. I could help you with the alphabet as a
starting point, too, if you need it.

I'm also open to any suggestions you have. Conversations, or books, or ideas, throw it
at me and I'll look into resources, or work out some ideas. Let me know!


Edited by Woodsei on 12 December 2012 at 11:52pm

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Woodsei
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12 December 2012 at 11:54pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for starting this thread, JohannaNYC!
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 Message 7 of 168
13 December 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged 
Woodsei wrote:


@deadscreen: Of course I'm ready to discuss anything over with you in regards to
Arabic. I speak the Egyptian dialect, but I also have some knowledge of Levantine, or I
can try and point you towards a good direction. I could help you with the alphabet as a
starting point, too, if you need it.

I'm also open to any suggestions you have. Conversations, or books, or ideas, throw it
at me and I'll look into resources, or work out some ideas. Let me know!


Woodsei, I think the most helpful thing you could tell me is what is the most commonly
spoken dialect of Arabic (in your opinion and experience as an Arabic speaker) and
also, do you know of any good references for learning Arabic alphabet and vocabulary?
Preferably online or free, as I am already a college student with little extra spending
money.

Edited by deadscreen on 13 December 2012 at 12:21am

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JohannaNYC
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 Message 8 of 168
13 December 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged 
Hello fairy godmother! The team godparent is a brand new position so you're a pioneer :)
I'm sure you'll do great as long as you check up on us every once in a while.

@deadscreen I posted two links to the Arabic resources I plan on using on my
blog
I have many more for non-Egyptian Arabic which I won't be using, I'll post them here
later. This forum is starting to get in the way of my learning any of my languages.


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